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tohare
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Feb 03, 2014

campground web sites

attn: owners please, when you are doing your web sites, please, include pictures of your sites. If you offer a variety of sites, however you choose to classify them, show two of each type. Most of us choose to stay with you based on your accommodations, and will they suit us, so show us. It is also nice to have a pic of your entrance so we know what we are looking for as we go down the road. The pics of wildlife, kids, swimming pool, store etc is all very interesting, but really it is the sites that sell us, so stop hiding them!
thanks
  • Photos of every site on an ordinary day are there to be seen on campsitephotos.com of every camp they've visited.
    The webmaster is encouraging his travelling teams to enlist private parks.
  • And please, please don't do as several Reserve America listings have on several of their campgrounds, listed and show the site post number. I mean if I select site #7, I don't want to see the site post and the number seven. I want to see the site! Number be hanged! Show me the table, fire ring, driveway, etc. The SITE!
  • Lack of websites and websites that look like they were designed over 10 years ago is what bothers me. And totally agree about the photo thing. One that irks me is when they don't show the sites, but show a bunch of old people at a pot luck dinner.
  • Totally agree, without RV park pics I won't go. Words can make any Park sound great. Drove by too many that were nothing more than low end full time spots for cousin Eddy.
  • Any business is going to show its product in the best possible light, even to the point of being a bit deceptive.

    Look at RV websites. How many use wide angle, even fisheye lenses for their photographs. Looked at one only yesterday & not only were these type of lenses used but the placement of furniture was such that it gave the impression that there was more room than actually existed.

    CGs are the same way. The best sites from the best view angles will be used for promotion. RVParkReviews.com is hands down the best info source. Ignore the most glowing review, ignore the most critical review & pay attention to the rest.
  • Google the CG and look at images. Often you will find an RVer's photo album. But agree CGs often limit pics of their sites. My approach to picking a CG is find pics of the CG thru google, see if I can get a good satellite image, etc.

    How a CG takes care of their sites is a good way to evaluate a CG and pictures paint a thousand words. To me clean, level sites and lots of pics of them even if they aren't as big as we would like, tends to mean they take care of the rest of the CG.

    I've noticed over the last few years COE Cgs are starting to add pictures of every site... Perhaps their standards will influence private CGs to follow.
  • i use rvpark reviews but it just seems to me if they are advertising their park, and taking pictures...
  • I agree.You may find pics of all sites of some campgrounds at Campsite photos .com.But yes,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,I always want to see pictures of a variety of sites.You should always go to campground reviews to hear what others experience has been.